From his remarkable debut "The Hawk in the Rain" (1957) to his death in 1998, Ted Hughes was a colossal presence in the English literary landscape. This edition collects his poetry of five decades, including such characteristic achievements as "Crow", "Tales from Ovid" and "Birthday Letters".[...]

This second two CD set draws on the broadcasts Ted Hughes made for schools, particularly the highly praised "Listening and Writing" series, later published as "Poetry in the Making", in which Hughes aimed to encourage an interest in imaginative writing in 10-14 year olds. Hughes explains the origins[...]

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2015 SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE'Gripping and at times ineffably sad, this book would be poetic even without the poetry. It will be the standard biography of Ted Hughes for a long time to come' Sunday Times'Seldom has the life of a writer rattled along with such furious activity ... A m[...]

A new edition of Sylvia Plath's Pulitzer Prize-winning Collected Poems, edited and with an introduction by Ted Hughes[...]

Ted Hughes, Poet Laureate, was one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. He was one of Britain s most important poets.With an equal gift for poetry and prose, he was also a prolific children s writer and has been hailed as the greatest English letterwriter since John Keats. His magnetic [...]

The Elegies of Ted Hughes opens a new line of enquiry into the verse of one of Britain's most highly regarded poets. Marking the first full length study of Hughes' relationship with the poetry of mourning, the elegy, The Elegies of Ted Hughes chronologically examines all the poet's major works and [...]

Ted Hughes was a great man and a great poet because of his wholeness and his simplicity and his unfaltering truth to his own sense of the world. Seamus HeaneyOriginally, the medieval bestiary, or book of animals, set out to establish safe distinctions between them and us but Ted Hughes s poetry work[...]

A collection of poetry addressed to Hughes's late wife, poet Sylvia Plath, reexamines the psychological breakdown that led to both some of her greatest poems and to her untimely death. Reprint.[...]

In the last year of his life, Ted Hughes completed translations of three major dramatic works: Racine's "Phedre," Euripedes' "Alcestis," and the trilogy of plays known as at "The""Oresteia," a family story of astonishing power and the background or inspiration for much subsequent drama, fiction, and[...]

Sylvia Plath began keeping a diary as a young child. By the time she was at Smith College, when this book begins, she had settled into a nearly daily routine with her journal, which was also a sourcebook for her writing. Plath once called her journal her "Sargasso," her repository of imagination, "a[...]

Drawn from archival material and interviews with childhood friends, fellow undergraduates, poets, and critics, a compelling portrait of one of the greatest English poets of the twentieth century details his marriage to poet Syliva Plath and reveals a man whose poetic vision captured his love of the [...]

Crow was Ted Hughes's fourth book of poems for adults and a pivotal moment in his writing career. In it, he found both a structure and a persona that gave his vision a new power and coherence. A. Alvarez wrote in the Observer, 'Each fresh encounter with despair becomes the occasion for a separate, a[...]